I was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1980. I graduated in Computer Science at UFRGS, Brazil in June 2002 and finished my MSc. in Computer Science at UFRGS, Brazil in January 2005. My Master thesis, Category of Partial Graphs with Total Homomorphisms: theory and applications, was supervised by Professor Paulo Blauth Menezes. From March 2004 until April 2005, I worked as Substitute Teacher in the Computer Science course at UFRGS. I taught the disciplines: "Formal Languages and Automata", "Graph Theory" and "Category Theory for Computer Science".